A Billionaire Got Caught Using AI

A Billionaire Got Caught Using AI. His Response: “Of Course.”

Billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller wrote a Wall Street Journal opinion piece criticizing Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, and then the internet noticed parts of the writing sounded a lot like AI.

Political news outlet, NOTUS asked him about it, and Druckenmiller didn't hide behind some fancy PR answer.

He said, “I write everything using AI now,” compared it to using a calculator for math, and joked that there was a reason he switched from English to economics in college.

The Wall Street Journal defended the piece, saying the argument and ideas were still his.

So while you’re rewriting the same email six times because you’re terrified Karen from accounting might discover you touched ChatGPT, a billionaire just admitted using AI in one of America’s biggest newspapers and basically kept walking.

Druckenmiller says AI helped him write his own ideas better, while critics say readers should be told when AI helps create something they are reading.

And that matters because AI is already becoming normal at work, whether people admit it or not.

You can keep polishing paragraph three until your eyes start paying rent, while someone else uses AI, finishes early, and acts like they were simply more productive.

Should people use AI freely as long as the ideas are really theirs, or should they clearly disclose when a machine helped with the writing?

Because pretending nobody is using it anymore might be the funniest part of the whole story.

Your Bladder Called: It Wants a Meeting at 3 AM

If you’re waking up every night to pee, congratulations. Your bladder has apparently decided sleep is optional.

But seriously, regularly getting dragged out of bed at 1, 2, or 3 AM might be worth understanding.

NativePath put together a short report covering why nighttime bathroom trips happen and some of the ways people are trying to get better bladder control and sleep through the night.

No 3 AM hallway adventures.

No negotiating with your bladder.

No turning the bathroom light on and immediately regretting having eyes.

See why your bladder keeps ruining your sleep. →

Worth a look before tonight’s scheduled bathroom appointment.

Don’t Let Your ZIP Code Set Your Salary

Apparently, where you live is still supposed to decide how much you earn.

Turing disagrees.

They connect people in software, cloud, data, and AI with 100% remote jobs at US companies, with Turing professionals earning an average of $103K+ a year.

No relocation, no platform fees, and no pretending a 2-hour commute is good for company culture.

We put together a quick page with the available roles, pay ranges, and how it all works.

Go judge the jobs for yourself. →

Worst case, you spend 60 seconds looking.

Best case, your current salary starts looking a little awkward.

Would You Pay $15,000 for 30 Minutes With the Former Head of Product at Twitter?

Nikita Bier, Elon Musk’s former head of product at X, formerly Twitter, is now charging venture-backed founders $15,000 for a 30-minute consulting call.

His profile lists advice starting at $7,500 for 15 minutes, but the minimum booking is 30 minutes, which works out to $500 a minute.

While you’re sitting there spending 20 minutes deciding what to order for lunch, someone could apparently spend $10,000 asking Bier why nobody is downloading their app.

Bier does have the résumé to charge serious money: he helped build tbh and Gas, two viral social apps where users answered anonymous polls about their friends.

He later worked at X and now advises founders on product, growth, fundraising, and getting people addicted to clicking things.

Still, $15,000 is $15,000. You better show up with better questions than, “So… how do I go viral?”

If you raised millions from investors and your company is slowly dying in a Slack channel, would you pay $15,000 for 30 minutes with someone who has already built viral products?

Maybe you laugh at the price or maybe you secretly wonder whether the founder paying it knows something you don’t, that's the trap.

Startup founders already spend half their lives watching other founders announce funding rounds, user growth, acquisitions, and mysterious big things coming, while pretending everything at their own company is going wonderfully.

Now you can add another concern: somewhere, your competitor might be paying $500 a minute for advice you don’t have.

Brilliant shortcut or an extremely expensive Zoom call?

Tylenol Is Back in the News

Tylenol is all over the news again, and not exactly because it won Pain Reliever of the Year.

We put together a quick page on the concerns people are talking about around Tylenol, plus a natural pain-relief alternative from NativePath.

It’s short, easy to read, and thankfully doesn't require a medical degree.

See the natural alternative designed to help with pain without simply masking it. →

Know Someone Who Puked in An Uber? Google Might Help Prevent It Next Time

Google is rolling out a new Android 17 feature called Motion Assist for Pixel phones, because looking out the window for ten minutes is now too much to ask.

The feature puts small moving dots around the edge of your screen that react to the car’s turns, braking, and acceleration.

The idea is simple: when your eyes stare at a perfectly still phone while your inner ear feels the car moving, your brain can get confused and decide, “Great, time to throw up.”

Motion Assist gives your eyes extra movement signals that better match what your body feels, which might reduce motion sickness. Google is now helping you survive the back seat of an Uber without forcing you to stop scrolling.

Apple already launched a similar feature with iOS 18, so Android users can finally stop pretending those little iPhone dots were stupid while secretly wondering when they were getting them.

We've reached a point where phone companies are redesigning software so you can keep staring at your screen during the exact moment your body is begging you to stop.

Motion Assist isn't a guaranteed cure, and Google only says it might help reduce motion sickness.

Still, if you're the person who checks one notification in a moving car, gets dizzy, feels your stomach turn, then checks another notification anyway because God forbid somebody posts something without you seeing it, congratulations, this feature was built for your specific brand of bad decision-making.

You can side with Google and say this is smart technology solving a real problem, or side with your grandmother, who somehow survived thousands of car rides by looking through a window.

Either way, the feature is arriving, and if it works well, watching people quietly switch it on after spending years laughing at useless phone features should be almost as entertaining as watching them try not to puke.

Know Someone Annoyingly Qualified?

If you’re a software engineer, AI specialist, researcher, doctor, or STEM expert, Turing has remote roles that might be worth stealing a few minutes from your current job to look at.

And if that’s not you, you probably know someone who fits the description.

The roles are 100% remote, include full-time and part-time options, and some pay at Silicon Valley-level rates in USD.

Even better, if you refer someone who gets hired, Turing pays you up to $1,000.

So you have two options:

Find yourself a better opportunity, or make $1,000 by sending one to someone else.

Check the open roles and see who comes to mind. →